NOOOOOOO!

June 2, 2005 4:52 PM

NOOOOOOO!
posted by Faint of Butt (60 comments total)

That's pretty odd.
posted by Marquis at 4:58 PM on June 2, 2005

OK, the 4th O made me laugh.
posted by Simon! at 5:03 PM on June 2, 2005

That fourth "O" is pretty hot.
posted by interrobang at 5:03 PM on June 2, 2005

The sixth "O" is actually funny.
posted by interrobang at 5:04 PM on June 2, 2005

Sorry, I meant the fifth one.
posted by interrobang at 5:04 PM on June 2, 2005

Thanks to my pal Jenn Dolari for finding these.
posted by Faint of Butt at 5:06 PM on June 2, 2005

I laughed.
posted by muckster at 5:06 PM on June 2, 2005

The Price Is Right and The Monkees ones were funniest.
posted by sourwookie at 5:08 PM on June 2, 2005

The Monkees one gets my vote for best.
posted by nomis at 5:10 PM on June 2, 2005

I don't get it.
posted by mudpuppie at 5:14 PM on June 2, 2005

Mudpuppie:

Much like "All Your Base" and / or Mahir, "You're The Man Now, Dog" sites are a webmeme that Will. Not. Die.

Google ytmnd, or spend a little time on ytmnd.com and you'll get it.

Or not.
posted by ImJustRick at 5:18 PM on June 2, 2005

I don't get it.

It's a takeoff of this.

Now, witness the ultimate matchup!
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 5:20 PM on June 2, 2005

So, in this new movie that's hot with all the kids these days, Darth Vader says "Noooooo"? Am I on to something?
posted by grapefruitmoon at 5:20 PM on June 2, 2005

Metafilter: NOOOOOOO!
posted by wolftrouble at 5:20 PM on June 2, 2005

Ate My Balls!
posted by shoepal at 5:21 PM on June 2, 2005

www.yourethemannowdog.com is still probably my favorite website ever. For those mercifully unaware, it's derived from a horrible line in the movie Finding Forrester, which stars Sean Connery as a crusty author (?) who teaches a poor black kid about writing. Or something, I don't remember the plot. Just the inane moment where Sean Connery ACTUALLY SAYS "you're the man now dog!"
posted by jcruelty at 5:25 PM on June 2, 2005

You know, I've heard the saying "you're the man now dog" hundreds of times without knowing it's origin. I've even said it myself before.
posted by fire&wings at 5:28 PM on June 2, 2005

I don't hear anything. They look funny, though.

Are these some of them there IE only sites I keep hearing about?

I'm using Firefox BTW.
posted by handshake at 5:29 PM on June 2, 2005

That scene in the movie was excruciating. It quite nearly ruined the entire movie for me.

So, Darth Vader, you've betrayed everything you've ever known or believed in, and you've been fully consumed both physically and spiritually by the Dark Side (tm).

I know, why don't you scream in a heavily cliched style?

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Someone should have told Lucas what a stupid fuck he was/is and stopped him from putting that scene in the movie.
posted by Ynoxas at 5:31 PM on June 2, 2005

Someone should have told Lucas what a stupid fuck he was/is and stopped him. from putting that scene in the movie.
posted by emelenjr at 5:48 PM on June 2, 2005

That scene was indeed truly terrible.
posted by eustacescrubb at 5:54 PM on June 2, 2005

Ah, so many tiled backgrounds on teh interweb and not enough time!
posted by qwerty155 at 5:57 PM on June 2, 2005

My whole office laughed. I especially loved the roller coaster one.
posted by lunarboy at 6:06 PM on June 2, 2005

handshake, I've got firefox and am enjoying Vader's NOOOOOOOs, so it ain't the browser.
posted by bachelor#3 at 6:13 PM on June 2, 2005

That "Khaaaaan" soundbite from Wrath of Khan is my current ringtone. I had plans to switch to the EP III soundbite.
posted by sourwookie at 6:13 PM on June 2, 2005

Like a moment straight from The Simpsons....
posted by malaprohibita at 6:14 PM on June 2, 2005

handshake, make sure you have Quicktime installed and properly configured. Check out this guide -- after following it I had full YTMND glory.
posted by zsazsa at 6:20 PM on June 2, 2005

was anyone else thinking (during the Frankenstein-Vader scene, when he started breaking things) "No Mongo, No!"
just me? ok then...
posted by hototogisu at 6:20 PM on June 2, 2005

The one I know and love is
Its a trap!
posted by BlackLeotardFront at 6:23 PM on June 2, 2005

Also: The Devious Snidely Grievous
posted by Silune at 6:24 PM on June 2, 2005

I wish to slap Lucas around with a large trout. He got so much right with that movie. How could anyone let him get away with completely ruining what's arguably the single most important scene in THE ENTIRE SERIES!?

My one consolation is that he could fix it just by redubbing a couple bits both spoken by characters whose mouths we cannot see. This would make the ADR a cinch. So maybe if he notices EVERYONE IN THE WORLD mocking Vader's "noooooo," it's not too late to change it for the DVD.
posted by InnocentBystander at 6:42 PM on June 2, 2005

Do you think he wrote out all the Os in the script?

The Devious Snidely Grievous might have made the movie worthwhile.
posted by unsupervised at 6:47 PM on June 2, 2005

Hardest I have laughed at this sort of thing since Khaan. Well done.
posted by Joey Michaels at 7:17 PM on June 2, 2005

Make them go away!
posted by Roger Dodger at 7:25 PM on June 2, 2005

That one scene really ruined the movie for me also.
posted by DigDugDag at 7:32 PM on June 2, 2005

Faint of Butt - you totally made my night.
posted by MsVader at 7:58 PM on June 2, 2005

I'd say the movie was ruined for me about 5 minutes into it. The horrible "NNOOOOOO!" scene was just the diarrhea icing on the shit cupcake.

These YTMND.com sites are great, though.
posted by emptybowl at 8:04 PM on June 2, 2005

So people were actually surprised that a scene from Star Wars seemed cheesy and unreal? C'mon, the movie is about giant lizards and cyborgs that use lightsabers. Plot and acting are, and always have been, secondary.
posted by Citizen Premier at 8:06 PM on June 2, 2005

Vader trimming his bush.
posted by furtive at 8:37 PM on June 2, 2005

Yeah, and Luke's "Nooooooo!" ruined Empire too, right?
posted by muckster at 8:39 PM on June 2, 2005

Plot and acting are, and always have been, secondary.

Which is fine when they're structured as dumb cliffhanger action movies with a little myth for padding. When they're supposed to be epic dramas with loads of political intrigue and a tragic character arc, plot and acting wind up mattering quite a bit.
posted by argybarg at 8:53 PM on June 2, 2005

Do you think he wrote out all the Os in the script?

The Devious Snidely Grievous might have made the movie worthwhile.
posted by unsupervised at 6:47 PM PST on June 2 [!]

A LOW GROAN emanates from Vader's mask. Suddenly everything in the room begins to implode, including some of the DROIDS.

DARTH VADER: I couldn't have! She was alive! I felt her! She was alive! It's impossible! No!!!
posted by basicchannel at 9:13 PM on June 2, 2005

muckster: I can't believe circumstances have led me to typing this sentence, but Mark Hammil was a better actor.
posted by Joey Michaels at 9:21 PM on June 2, 2005

Funny! - It took me a few to realize each O was another link.
posted by xistboi at 9:29 PM on June 2, 2005

For whatever it's worth, I get no sound on any of these, either. (Firefox; Mac 10.3.9.)

Not that I have a particular need to be reminded of the most overwrought moment in cinema of the last decade, but still....
posted by Dr. Wu at 9:30 PM on June 2, 2005

[E]pic dramas with loads of political intrigue and a tragic character arc? Are we watching the same Star Wars? Haven't you noticed how the opening text is written to appeal to little kids?
posted by Citizen Premier at 9:43 PM on June 2, 2005

on a somewhat related note:
i knew that your friend's name looked familiar and so i clicked around her site and found this, which lead to finding this.

i cannot even tell you how many hours i spent playing these games in the rutgers student center when i should have been doing work.

i haven't tried to run these on windows xp yet, but i can pretty much guarantee that if i do get them up and running, my plans to work on grading the stack of students' papers on my desk will go to shit right quick.
posted by ronv at 9:55 PM on June 2, 2005

Hee hee! These are funny. I laughed out loud. Especially the fifth one. Sigh. Good times.
posted by evinrude at 9:59 PM on June 2, 2005

Great Butt! I mean, thanks, that was great Butt. I mean that was great Butt, thanks.

Really, that was a great Butt post!
posted by joedharma at 11:14 PM on June 2, 2005

I think I'm the only person alive who didn't find that scene particularly "cheesy", "overwrought", or "ruining to the movie". I thought it sounded like exactly what Hayden as Anakin would do in his own voice if he still had it (only with raw emotion and angst to inflect it). It just so happened that his voice was the rather emotionless James Earl Jones at the time. He can't exactly control how his mechanically-enabled voice is able to express what he's feeling, can he?
posted by Midnightblue at 12:01 AM on June 3, 2005

Not sure what the point of this post was, but then I haven't seen Episode 3 yet.
posted by salmacis at 1:11 AM on June 3, 2005

Midnightblue, have you seen this Futurama episode, where Calculon shows off his acting chops in a clip from All My Circuits? That's really what does it for me. Having seen that clip several years ago, there's no way I could get through the Vader scene without stifling a laugh.

There's an audio clip here, #8. Anybody have video?
posted by Galvatron at 2:05 AM on June 3, 2005

Midnightblue. No, you're not the only one. I thought the 'Nooo!' could've gone on a few seconds longer in fact ;-)

I've said it before and it bears repeating - the added bonus of EPs I-III has been the equally epic amount of nerd-froth that has been spat forth against, well, almost everything to do with everything about all six movies. Intentional or not, Lucas knows how to push the buttons of people who...well, let's face it, aren't exactly contributing massively to the flowing cultural fabric of the world...or something...
posted by i_cola at 3:08 AM on June 3, 2005

I think the only real problem with the I-III is they where too complex in comparison with IV-VI. (I say this as a fan of complex movies)
Star Wars was never about good acting. It was basic mythology with cool special effects. Basic mythology means, BASIC. I-III tried to pack too much extraneous stuff, and changed how some key supporting figures behaved (i.e. Yoda and R2D2), no wonder people bitch about it.
posted by edgeways at 10:04 AM on June 3, 2005

Nobody's mashed that scene up with the Dean scream yet?
posted by Wolfdog at 1:43 PM on June 3, 2005

Was the N a kiki and herb thing? I've never seen them so i dunno what herb sounds like. But it was sorta funny.
posted by gorgor_balabala at 7:10 PM on June 3, 2005

gorgor_balabala, that was Liam Lynch, of Sifl and Olly fame. The song is "The United States of Whatever".
posted by amarynth at 10:05 PM on June 3, 2005

This is fucking hilarious. Me and my wife went to see EpIII last week and we both laughed out loud in the cinema at the Frankenstein scene. No, we didn't like the film. We've just watched all these links and we've spent the past five minutes laughing uncontrollably after the rollercoaster one. Genius.
posted by dodgygeezer at 3:50 AM on June 4, 2005

Vader 1989
posted by NickDouglas at 1:17 PM on June 4, 2005

Bimflaps!
posted by Saddo at 3:53 PM on June 4, 2005